I started this blog for Minnesota's 23 Things on a Stick but since I'm not a Minnesotan, I've switched over to the SD Library Challenge. I was thinking vaguely of Dr. Suess as I worked on my way to completion of Thing 1; this blog. (As I recall, Thing 1 and Thing 2 were not altogether innocuous. There is really a certain darkness in the Cat in the Hat when you consider it in contemporary terms.)
I've never really had a blog before or even read too many of them but, having attended several library conferences that promoted the worlds of web 2.0 or social computing or whatever the current lingo calls it, I'm ready to take some new steps and learn some new tricks. (at least 10 or 11 of them if I understand this correctly. ) I'm the library director for a tribal college/university/public library on the Sicangu Reservation in the Rosebud area of south central South Dakota. Currently, our college MIS department blocks many social computing sites from student and public access based mostly, they say, on the issues of bandwidth availability and priority. I'm hoping that I can make some compelling arguments to sway the belief that such access is in actuality, relevant and even necessary for our users. Your comments in constructing this argument would be most welcome!
As we speak, I am working on my avatar. I am blocked from getting on Yahoo Avatars so I am trying some different sites to create mine. I'm currently loading Kaneva. Hopefully it will allow me to export the avatar I create.
I'm really looking forward to working on these Challenges. I have an old dog and while he may not have too many new tricks per se, he has managed to train us really well to continually sweeten his life!
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